How Our Mobiles Cater To Every Need

Do you have the right time? Who’s playing in next week’s Monday night game? Is it going to be this warm all week? If someone were to ask you any of the above questions, or one of a million others, from who shot Bobby Kennedy to how much you have in the bank right now, chances are you would reach for your smartphone to find the answer.

The interesting thing is that we all talk about how this is the mobile age and smartphones have changed our lives, but it is not until we really think about it in those terms that we realize we turn to our smartphones to answer almost every question and to cater to our every need.

Here, we take a look at just some of the ways smartphones have changed our lives, and we also take a look in the crystal ball to see how they might develop in the years to come.

Social interaction

From the status update to the selfie, social media caught on to the mobile-first phenomenon before anything or anyone else. In 2015, there was huge excitement when mobile overtook desktop as the top platform for browsing, but as far as Facebook and Twitter were concerned, this was old news and smartphones already had almost two-thirds of the market.

Mobile is simply more convenient for social media interaction, where users want to share their experiences and pictures on the go, not wait until they get home then spend ages uploading photos to a desktop.

Our social media activities will become more closely entwined with those in the real world over the coming years, as advances in machine learning allow platforms such as Facebook to provide an ever more tailored experience. You see this already with those suggested links to sites and groups that are of interest to you, and this is a technology that is only in its infancy.

Gaming

Twenty years ago, gamers were seen as a specific demographic, typically of the teenage kind with limited social skills and bad complexion. These days, we are all gamers. The mobile revolution has made gaming as popular a pastime as watching TV or reading a book, and where in the late 20th century, commuters would sit on trains with a newspaper or book, these days they are far more likely to be engrossed in a game on their smartphones.

The variety of games has also expanded dramatically, and nowadays there is something to appeal to everyone. Perhaps the biggest change is the ability for adults to log on to casino or lottery sites such as Powerball CA, and either play online or order their tickets online here. Suddenly, a fun leisure activity has been combined with the possibility to win some serious money, which has to be a win-win for everyone.

How will gaming advance in the coming years? Almost certainly, the focus will be on virtual reality (VR), a technology that has been a long time coming but has finally become affordable over the past 12 months or so. The major players, Samsung and Apple, have seen the way the wind is blowing and have been quick to release headsets that can turn your smartphone into a VR device. The technology will improve exponentially over the coming months and years, and soon all those games that are so popular will have a VR aspect.

The Internet of Things

We love our gadgets, but have you noticed that we gradually need fewer of them? We touched on this above, with the suggestion that few people are likely to buy a special VR headset when they can just use their smartphone. But it goes deeper – ten years ago, we all had MP3 players, but why do we need them today when we have our entire music library on our smartphone?

Over the coming years, expect more of your favorite gadgets to become obsolete. The Internet of Things is the term to describe the smart technology that is all around us, and by which we can, for example, change the TV channel, turn on the heating and dim the lights.

The current craze for voice technology means these are commonly controlled via devices such as the Amazon Echo, but hold on a moment – Siri does the same thing and resides on your phone. While some say voice tech is overtaking mobile tech, there is a greater likelihood that the two will simply combine in mobile devices.

One thing is for sure, however. For anyone who has multiple different remotes for the TV, satellite, stereo, Blu-ray player and so on, the next evolutionary step where you can throw them all away and simply use your phone cannot come soon enough.

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